People watch as the world's largest Fritos Chilli Pie at the State Fair of Texas on October 1, 2012 at in Dallas. The pie weighed in at 1325 pounds and consisted of 635 bags of Fritos, 660 cans of chilli without beans, and 580 bags of shredded cheddar cheese. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)

As far as Texas Monthly is concerned, Frito Pie is best served in the bag. But that’s not really an option when your serving size is 1,325 pounds.

Monday, Frito-Lay and the State Fair of Texas teamed up to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of Fritos by creating the world’s largest Frito Pie—or “Fritos Chili Pie,” if you insist on using the Plano corporation’s preferred nomenclature.

The accomplishment was verified by a Guinness Book of World Records official.

As Scott Reitz of the Dallas Observerreported last month, said official was Michael Empric, “an adjudicator who helps determine what constitutes an initial record and whether an existing record has been broken.”

There was no existing record for World’s Largest Frito Pie Fritos Chili Pie, so Empric recommended that it be 1,200 pounds, based, Reitz wrote, “on previous food records like largest taco (1,654 pounds) and largest hamburger patty (6,040 pounds).”

As Reitz wrote on Monday, “The 1,200-pound goal was obliterated by an extra 125 pounds of sodium and cholesterol.”

The record-setting pie yielded approximately “5,000 single-serve samples,” meaning that the Fair’s attendees still had room to try out something deep-fried. Because let’s face it: 1,325 pounds of Frito Pie should not serve more than 2,650 people.